Comments on: Telnet to the browser? http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2008/04/19/2795.html A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:47:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Anonymous http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2008/04/19/2795.html#comment-22469 Anonymous Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:54:34 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=2795#comment-22469 @Anonymous The source snippets don't detail how the port is bound. It could be fairly securely bound just to localhost, like XAMPP does, or it could be bound to INADDR_ANY (that people outside the computer could telnet to). @Anonymous

The source snippets don’t detail how the port is bound. It could be fairly securely bound just to localhost, like XAMPP does, or it could be bound to INADDR_ANY (that people outside the computer could telnet to).

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2008/04/19/2795.html#comment-22286 Anonymous Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:11:42 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=2795#comment-22286 This seems like a keen idea - but .. the example shows leaving an open port that anyone can telnet to. While great for the application it appears to leave the client wide-open to be exploited. Am I missing something? This seems like a keen idea - but .. the example shows leaving an open port that anyone can telnet to.

While great for the application it appears to leave the client wide-open to be exploited. Am I missing something?

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